Saturday, February 16, 2008

Russian Brass Quintet Music

On Wednesday, we heard most of this recording made by the Montanus Brass Quintet. It contains some numerous significant works for brass quintet by Russian composers, as well as a few transcriptions that work well for quintet.

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Viktor Grischin (or Victor Grishin, or Victor Grishin, or Victor Grichin)information is hard to come by, not least because Victor Grishin was mayor of Moscow during the mid-1980s. (The same one? Probably not, but stranger things have happened. I can't think of one, though.) The "real" Viktor Grishin is a percussionist, and while I found no reference to him in the Grove Dictionary, he was listed as a vibraphonist and drummer in for 1979 and 1980 Alfred Schnittke premieres.